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Apparently, Canada has the good taste to celebrate my birthday with a public holiday – a long weekend even.
The monday before or on the Twenty Fourth of May is a day full of fireworks and drinking and barbeques, in honor of a Significant Person born on the 24th.
The only problem [...]
…not paying more attention in English.
The biggest reason I don’t write much here, is not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s that I have no idea how to say it.
It takes me so long to write anything – particularly if it’s an opinion, rather than a simple account -that the very [...]
A load level of 14 – compiling KDE4 (using a three way parallel build), while starting a VMWare virtual machine from a USB drive, while copying 4 gig of data from a different USB drive to the local drive, and everything is still wonderfully responsive. My laptop or the old Music computer would have given [...]
I’m in the process of staging an experimental migration to another hosting provider – starting with stuartherring.com, so this site and my gallery may be unavailable at times over the next week or so until I figure out what the hell I’m doing.
…for a news article linked to at eight in the morning, to still be the same fucking article fourteen hours later???
Fuck you, Sydney Morning Herald.
…a neighbour’s unsecured wireless access point with 1.5/256 ADSL.
It’s terrible, I know – but I had used up the 200MB on my 3 NetConnect card, and wasn’t really enjoying the prospect of paying $1 per meg after that.
Besides, it’s only until Telstra gets their act together and does whatever they need to [...]
I recently discovered that EastWest are having a big sale on their Quantum Leap Orchestral softsynths – their entry level Silver version is now only $US295, or around $AU400 – so I’m very tempted to buy it pretty much immediately.
However, I can’t find any decent samples of what it sounds like. On their [...]
ok, another change in template, and a different syntax highlighting plugin and I’m realatively happy for now….
But I still don’t like fixed-width layouts.
Ok, that’s a little better – it’s still fixed pixel width, but at least it’s wider.
I guess I’m going to have to get round to making my own theme one of these days.
…that previous post is an example of why fixed-pixel sized layouts are a fucking stupid idea.
Just Don’t Do It.
Learn to use the dynamic reflowing nature of HTML. A web page is NOT a static paper page – you don’t know how big or small the viewing device is going to be.
I [...]
